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![]() ![]() ![]() It was Delaney who introduced Baldwin to Yoran Cazac in Paris. Delaney became a mentor to Baldwin, who often spoke of him as a "spiritual father." In later years, as Delaney succumbed to mental illness and was unable to care for himself, Baldwin legally acted in the role of family to oversee his affairs. Baldwin met Delaney when he was fourteen, the first self-supporting artist he had ever met, and like Baldwin, Delaney was black and homosexual. THE NOVEL IS DEDICATED to the eminent African-American artist Beauford Delaney. Man puts on his record player and Blinky begins to dance, which starts TJ to dancing, and soon all of them, the adults included, are laughing away. ![]() The event casts a somber pall over the day until Mr. While the children see her as a healer-"'Did you used to be a nurse?'"-the adult reader understands that Miss Lee is an alcoholic, and it is she who dropped the bottle. Miss Lee is sent for, and when she arrives, she attends to WT's wounds. The children manage to get WT to the basement where Mr. ![]()
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